End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
Jan 21, 2025
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY with THE RISKS & CONSEQUENCES OF TOMORROW
Today we began living an even more threatening way of life under a Trump’s evil and obvious concept of brutal unamerican authoritarianism. We brought it on ourselves through our complacency, apathy, and a mass lack of care and ignorance of how the Worlds’ work. I have spent the last two and a half years trying to relate my own point of view, using some six or more media outlets, so that’s how I know that there has been little interest in the average human’s thoughts about saving his own skin. I pity other professional and commercial outlets who stay afloat through virtually deaf ears as well, relying on advertising to try to awaken a World of blind deafness.
I have, for many years, warned and pleaded through my website about our predominately sad human habit of apathetic ignorance, which is what “politicians”, including Donald J. Trump thrive on. As Albert Einstein and other insightful, but honest and aware, insightful world leaders have told us over and over, curiosity and imagination are more important than education and intelligence. But we are too limited in those qualities to learn from these two simple day-to-day areas of wakefulness. We brought it all — our future I mean — on ourselves. Following is a description of my own mythical hope for a better way of life from what I long ago grew to understand about a better future for our human ways of life by facing the tangled web of how it works in its multiple ways, and finding a way to separate the wheat from the chaff:
Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft’s multi-faceted website is a dank and dark, partly cloudy, but hopeful, pre-dystopian liberalist feministic opinion place dedicated to advocating today for a better, more environmentally and socially friendly, multi-world of global peace, freedom, and unity instead of the obvious alternative.
For about two and a half years, I have posted here (and elsewhere) daily about the terrible doomsday to come courtesy of a multi-World full of nuclear holocaust weapons of mass destruction that may decimate humanity and other life as we now know it on planet Earth.
We’ve had our chance to make it right, but I fear this election and swearing in of a faux-American leader on January 20th— a despicable man whom a caring Parallel World of us have long despised — has brought humanity all around the Parallel Worlds of our Moon to our knees and the ultimate price will be paid soon . . . (I can only hope for all of us that I am wrong.) ~llaw
Today we began living an even more threatening way of life under a Trump’s evil and obvious concept of brutal unamerican authoritarianism. We brought it on ourselves through our complacency, apathy, and a mass lack of care and ignorance of how the Worlds’ work. I have spent the last two and a half years trying to relate my own point of view, using some six or more media outlets, so that’s how I know that there has been little interest in the average human’s thoughts about saving his own skin. I pity other professional and commercial outlets who stay afloat through virtually deaf ears as well, relying on advertising to try to awaken a World of blind deafness.
I have, for many years, warned and pleaded through my website about our predominately sad human habit of apathetic ignorance, which is what “politicians”, including Donald J. Trump thrive on. As Albert Einstein and other insightful, but honest and aware, insightful world leaders have told us over and over, curiosity and imagination are more important than education and intelligence. But we are too limited in those qualities to learn from these two simple day-to-day areas of wakefulness. We brought it all — our future I mean — on ourselves. Following is a description of my own mythical hope for a better way of life from what I long ago grew to understand about a better future for our human ways of life by facing the tangled web of how it works in its multiple ways, and finding a way to separate the wheat from the chaff:
Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft’s multi-faceted website is a dank and dark, partly cloudy, but hopeful, pre-dystopian liberalist feministic opinion place dedicated to advocating today for a better, more environmentally and socially friendly, multi-world of global peace, freedom, and unity instead of the obvious alternative.
For about two and a half years, I have posted here (and elsewhere) daily about the terrible doomsday to come courtesy of a multi-World full of nuclear holocaust weapons of mass destruction that may decimate humanity and other life as we now know it on planet Earth.
We’ve had our chance to make it right, but I fear this election and swearing in of a faux-American leader on January 20th— a despicable man whom a caring Parallel World of us have long despised — has brought humanity all around the Parallel Worlds of our Moon to our knees and the ultimate price will be paid soon . . . (I can only hope for all of us that I am wrong.) ~llaw
The following “Truthout” stories are both brief and to-the-point.
Trump Just Inherited Sole Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons on a Whim
With the Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight, experts urge us all to reengage with nuclear security issues.
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January 20, 2025
Brigitte N. Brantley / Department of Defense
The global security landscape has changed dramatically since Donald Trump’s first term, but one thing that remains constant is U.S. presidential authority to use nuclear weapons. From the moment he takes the oath of office until the moment his successor assumes the presidency, Trump has the authority and the means to order a nuclear attack at any moment and for any reason if he chooses to do so.
Dating back to the Eisenhower administration, the system that gives U.S. presidents the ability to launch a nuclear strike at a moment’s notice revolves around what is known as the “nuclear football.” The “football” (formally called the presidential emergency satchel) is carried by a military aide who accompanies the president wherever he goes. As a backup, a second aide carrying another “football” follows the vice president.
The bulky, black, leather-bound 45-lb.-aluminum satchel is believed to contain laminated sheets printed with dozens of nuclear war plans and options, instructions on communicating with the public during a national emergency, and a secure satellite phone — all intentionally low-tech and offline to avoid vulnerability to hacking or technical glitches.
At all times, the president and vice president also carry sealed plastic cards, roughly the size of credit cards, informally called “biscuits” for their resemblance to cookies in a foil wrapper. Officially called the sealed authenticator system, the “biscuit” contains alphanumeric authentication codes to be used by the president to verify their identity.
For the duration of their term, President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance will be accompanied by the tools necessary to launch a nuclear attack. “Wherever they go, whatever they’re doing, there will always be a military aide with them with the satchel, just in case,” Stephen Schwartz, a nonresident fellow at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, told Truthout.
. . . and then there is this . . .
Trump’s Inauguration Speech Threatened New Depths of State Cruelty
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January 21, 2025
Julia Demaree Nikhinson – Pool / Getty Images
Trump’s Inauguration Speech Threatened New Depths of State Cruelty
In his 2017 speech, Trump pretended to stand with “struggling families.” This time, the emphasis was solely on cruelty.
Today we began living an even more threatening way of life under a Trump’s evil and obvious concept of brutal unamerican authoritarianism. We brought it on ourselves through our complacency, apathy, and a mass lack of care and ignorance of how the Worlds’ work. I have spent the last two and a half years trying to relate my own point of view, using some six or more media outlets, so that’s how I know that there has been little interest in the average human’s thoughts about saving his own skin. I pity other professional and commercial outlets who stay afloat through virtually deaf ears as well, relying on advertising to try to awaken a World of blind deafness.
I have, for many years, warned and pleaded through my website about our predominately sad human habit of apathetic ignorance, which is what “politicians”, including Donald J. Trump thrive on. As Albert Einstein and other insightful, but honest and aware, insightful world leaders have told us over and over, curiosity and imagination are more important than education and intelligence. But we are too limited in those qualities to learn from these two simple day-to-day areas of wakefulness. We brought it all — our future I mean — on ourselves. Following is a description of my own mythical hope for a better way of life from what I long ago grew to understand about a better future for our human ways of life by facing the tangled web of how it works in its multiple ways, and finding a way to separate the wheat from the chaff:
Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft’s multi-faceted website is a dank and dark, partly cloudy, but hopeful, pre-dystopian liberalist feministic opinion place dedicated to advocating today for a better, more environmentally and socially friendly, multi-world of global peace, freedom, and unity instead of the obvious alternative.
For about two and a half years, I have posted here (and elsewhere) daily about the terrible doomsday to come courtesy of a multi-World full of nuclear holocaust weapons of mass destruction that may decimate humanity and other life as we now know it on planet Earth.
We’ve had our chance to make it right, but I fear this election and swearing in of a faux-American leader on January 20th— a despicable man whom a caring Parallel World of us have long despised — has brought humanity all around the Parallel Worlds of our Moon to our knees and the ultimate price will be paid soon . . . (I can only hope for all of us that I am wrong.) ~llaw
The following “Truthout” stories, both brief and to-the-point are from “Truthout”,
In his 2017 speech, Trump pretended to stand with “struggling families.” This time, the emphasis was solely on cruelty.
It matters what presidents say in their inauguration speeches. The words set the tone for what follows. They do so, whether the president succeeds or fails.
Go back to Barack Obama’s first inauguration speech, and what you notice now is language itself breaking under the pressure that president placed on it. He encouraged Americans to believe that theirs was still a land of opportunity, that journeys like his own could endlessly be repeated. Obama noted what he’d achieved, by winning the election, so that “a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served in a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.” Obama needed words to act like magic. All his elegant phrases had an intended purpose. A nod toward the financial crisis as “a consequence of greed and irresponsibility” was an attempt to prompt humility in how the rich and powerful ruled the U.S. and the world. The plan seems quixotic now — why should the rich care about being nice, if they might instead be ever greedier, ever more powerful, ever more dominant in relation to the rest of us?
In Donald Trump’s first inauguration speech, the message was sinister. Notably, the 2017 speech repeatedly implies his supporters are the new poor, the new wretched of the Earth. This is the Republican Party of 2017 we are talking about, after all; still the party of the WASPs, of old money and Wall Street influence, and a voting base which was still significantly more affluent than its Democratic counterpart. Nonetheless, Trump called his supporters “the people,” “struggling families” and “American workers.”
That first move led him to a second deceit. Why were the workers poor? His answer was the Democrats. “A small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government,” Trump told his audience. As an argument, it made no sense — the likes of Tim Walz or even Nancy Pelosi aren’t struggling, but their wealth isn’t a tenth of Donald Trump’s. Whatever they have gained from collaborating in workers’ exploitation, he has taken many times more. Trump didn’t need his inauguration speech to be accurate or logical. What he wanted was something else. “Washington flourished,” he said, “but the people did not share in its wealth … while they celebrated in our nation’s Capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.” Trump had already set himself the goal of building a private movement, one that would be loyal to him personally, and go wherever he led it. He and his speechwriters were setting in place the rhetorical strategies that would culminate four years later with Trump promising to “fight like hell,” as his supporters attacked Capitol Hill.
Compare Trump’s two inauguration speeches, and some of the biggest differences are in the context. In 2017, Trump announced no more than two executive orders on the day of his inauguration, and one of them was a policy he hated — keeping the Affordable Care Act going. Eight years later, Trump used his speech to announce, supposedly, 200 executive orders. He promised to “declare a national emergency at our southern border,” a mechanism, in other words, to create a near future in which those who travel for work are not just deported, but are treated as outside the law, so that any amount of violence against them is legitimate.
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TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Tuesday, (01/21/2025)
All Things Nuclear
NEWS
Trump Just Inherited Sole Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons on a Whim | Truthout
Truthout
With the Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight, experts urge us all to reengage with nuclear security issues.
Live updates: Donald Trump sworn in as 47th president | CNN Politics
CNN
“Mexico will do everything necessary to defend, care for and allocate what is needed to receive those who are repatriated in order to achieve their …
Nuclear power firms climb as Trump doubles down on energy policy – TradingView
TradingView
Shares of nuclear power firms jump premarket after U.S. President Donald Trump issued a flurry of orders intended to boost energy production after …
Nuclear Power
NEWS
Trump calls North Korea a ‘nuclear power,’ drawing a rebuke from Seoul – NBC News
NBC News
Denuclearization of North Korea is imperative, South Korea said Tuesday after President Donald Trump described the reclusive regime as a “nuclear ..
GE Hitachi joins coalition to accelerate reactor deployment – WilmingtonBiz
WilmingtonBiz
Wilmington-headquartered GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has joined a coalition of utility companies and s.
US companies join forces to accelerate SMR deployment – World Nuclear News
World Nuclear News
A TVA-led coalition including BWRX-300 developer GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is applying for federal funding to support the US deployment of small …
Nuclear Power Emergencies
NEWS
Trump says to unleash American fossil fuels, halt climate cooperation – Reuters
Reuters
Summary; Companies. Trump declares national energy emergency to accelerate permitting of oil, gas and power projects; President also likely to …
Trump’s “national energy emergency” explained – Axios
Axios
It sets the stage for an important theme of his second term: that rising energy demand requires fossil fuels and nuclear.
Trump to Declare National Energy Emergency, Unlocking New Powers – Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said he will “declare a national energy emergency,” as he orders steps intended to unleash domestic energy …
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
Trump Just Inherited Sole Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons on a Whim | Truthout
Truthout
That briefing may be the first and only time the president delves into nuclear war planning. “Nuclear weapons are an existential threat mankind, ..
For as Long as It Works: Russia’s Nuclear Signalling During Its War in Ukraine – ICDS
icds.ee
… threats of escalation. Russia’s continuous nuclear signalling, absent any tangible nuclear activities on the ground, has been losing its credibilit
Doomsday Clock: What time will it be in 2025? – The Elders
The Elders
2024 again laid bare the stark reality of the crises facing humanity. Nuclear risks, the climate and nature crisis, pandemics and disruptive …
Nuclear War
NEWS
Trump Just Inherited Sole Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons on a Whim | Truthout
Truthout
With the Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight, experts urge us all to reengage with nuclear security issues.
Angling Toward Armageddon – FPIF – Foreign Policy in Focus
Foreign Policy in Focus
There are many drivers of this push for a larger, more dangerous arsenal — from the misguided notion that more nuclear weapons will make us safer to …
For as Long as It Works: Russia’s Nuclear Signalling During Its War in Ukraine – ICDS
icds.ee
For years, Moscow has tried to pressure the west to recognise its status as a great power and accept its vision of rearrangement of world order
Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
The lasting contributions of Yellowstone National Park naturalist George Marler
Idaho Capital Sun
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. YOU MAKE OUR …
“There Will Be Eruptions”: Concerns Mount as Yellowstone Supervolcano Activity Increases
MSN
The Yellowstone supervolcano, located beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, is one of the most powerful volcanic systems on Earth. Known for …
Find Your Favorite Public Lands | U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Department of the Interior
The Yellowstone Caldera is a supervolcano that formed thousands of years ago and its thermal beginnings were spurred by heat in the earth’s core. This …